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Preston Urban Traffic Management and Control (UTMC) System, Preston, UK
30-08-2010
Lancashire County Council installed UTMC in the City of Preston to link traffic signals, parking availability and air quality information to better manage traffic in order to achieve its policy objectives - particularly safety and accessibility. The experience has been a positive one for the Council and anecdotal evidence suggests that UTMC in Preston is achieving its objectives
Villemizero-Athens historic center and Argyroupolis
30-08-2010
The VillemiZéro project, the title of which stands for “Ville Emission Zéro” (Zero Emissions Cities), is a transnational co-operation project dealing with the issue of sustainable development in the Mediterranean Basin. The main project objective is to study ways to prevent and reduce the pollution caused by street traffic, especially in urban and peripheral areas.The Pilot Project of Prefecture of Athens and AEDA targets the development of a sustainable mobility model for the area using as data and indicators the environmental impact of traffic and the health repercussions from exposure to air pollution
Car Free Day Belgrade, Serbia
30-08-2010
The first spontaneous organization of Car Free Day took place 1970s, but definitive date of marking of that day was established in 1999. Belgrade took part in this organization and it was accompanied by many other manifestations.
Revenue Distribution in Swiss Tariff Unions
30-08-2010
With the implementation of tariff unions and transportation
unions within net cost contract schemes, the distribution
of revenues to the transport operators has to be settled.
Tariff union tickets can be used on various routes and transport
operators. The revenues of tariff union tickets usually
go into one common pot. These revenues have to be distributed
based on suitable criteria and schemes. Revenue
distribution schemes therefore have the purpose of allocating
revenues of jointly sold tickets to the operators who performed
the transport service.
In Switzerland (and also in Germany) demand-driven revenue
distribution schemes are becoming more and more important.
The Annual Ankara “Streets are Open” Festival
30-08-2010
The Kavaklıdere district of Ankara has been host to the annual “Streets are Open” Festival since 2007, aimed at increasing awareness among the general public of how they can better utilise the streets by reclaiming them from vehicular traffic, and use them as arenas for social and cultural events.
Using new technologies for improving parking payment in Serbia
30-08-2010
Although ways of paying parking had been unchanged for a long time and activated using person for getting paid, during last year’s paying parking become more effective and speedily for users by using new technologies.
Solar water tram in Bydgoszcz, Poland
27-08-2010
At the end of September 2008, acceptance tests were carried out for the prototype of a “solar ferry” of the Bydgoszcz Urban Transport Company Ltd. (Miejskie Zakłady Komunikacyjne sp. z o.o.). The unit, to be called “Słonecznik” (“a sunflower”), is the first passenger inland waterway vessel in Poland with solar panels and batteries as the basic propulsion power source.
E-driving in Spain
27-08-2010 (14-12-2009)
The Royal Automobile Club of Catalonia (RACC) started this year a mobility campaign, focused on minimizing emissions through more energy-efficient driving.
Safe itineraries to school in Andorra
27-08-2010
The project Camí Escolar (Way to school), approved by the National Union of Mobility (Taula Nacional de Mobilitat) follows the recommendation of the European Council and UNICEF.
The Barcelona Tramway of the 21st Century
27-08-2010
In Barcelona two new tramway networks have been built over the last five years, the Trambaix and the Trambesòs, physically not connected with each other, but well accepted by the citizens.
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